Explore 1429 historical events from 1880–1889.
Clifford Porter Hall was an American character actor known for appearing in a number of films in the 1930s and 1940s. Hall typically played villains or comedic incompetent characte…
Porter Hall, American actor (died 1953)
Hanna Ralph was a German stage and film actress whose career began on the stage and in silent film in the 1910s and continued through the early 1950s.
Hanna Ralph, German actress (died 1978)
Walter Owen Bentley, was an English engineer who founded Bentley in London. He was a motorcycle and car racer as a young man. After making a name for himself as a designer of aircr…
W. O. Bentley, English race car driver and engineer, founded Bentley Motors Limited (died 1971)
Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, commonly known as Grey Owl, was a popular Canadian writer, public speaker and conservationist. Born an Englishman, he immigrated to Canada and, in the …
Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author (died 1938)
Toni Anna Wolff was a Swiss Jungian analyst and a close collaborator of Carl Jung. During her analytic career Wolff published relatively little under her own name, but she helped J…
Toni Wolff, Swiss psychologist and author (died 1953)
James Frank Dobie was an American folklorist, writer, and newspaper columnist best known for his many books depicting the richness and traditions of life in rural Texas during the …
J. Frank Dobie, American journalist and author (died 1964)
Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist and playwright. He was a leading figure of modernist poetry in the English language where he altered the art through his use of pessimisti…
T. S. Eliot, English poet, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
Wade Boteler was an American film actor and writer. He appeared in more than 430 films between 1919 and 1943.
Wade Boteler, American actor and screenwriter (died 1943)
Lucy Tayiah Eads or Cha-me (1888–1961) was elected the first female tribal chief of the Kaw Indians in 1922. She was the first chief of the Kaws since 1908.
Lucy Tayiah Eads, American tribal chief (died 1961)
Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen was a Norwegian speed skater and celebrity, almost rivalling Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen as symbols for a young nation. He represented Kristiania Skøi…
Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (died 1954)
Eugène Adrien Roland Georges Garros was a French aviation pioneer and fighter pilot. A self-taught pilot, he performed many early aviation feats such as the first-ever airplane cro…
Roland Garros, French soldier and pilot (died 1918)
Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd vice president of the United States, serving from 1941 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He served as the 11th U.S. secretary of agri…
Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States (died 1965)
Mary Claire Fuller was an American actress active in both stage and silent films. She also was a screenwriter and had several films produced. An early major star, by 1917 she could…
Mary Fuller, American actress and screenwriter (died 1973)
Edna Meade Colson was an American educator, known for her contributions to improving access to education to Virginian African Americans.
Edna Meade Colson, American educator and activist (died 1985)
Ernst Kretschmer was a German psychiatrist who researched the human constitution and established a typology.
Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (died 1964)
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and Marxist theorist. A prominent Bolshevik described by Vladimir Lenin as a "most valuable and major the…
Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician (died 1938)
Irving Cummings was an American film director and actor.
Irving Cummings, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1959)
Kathleen Mansfield Murry was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been publishe…
Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand novelist, short story writer, and essayist (died 1923)
Yukio Sakurauchi was an entrepreneur, politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan. He was the father of prominent post-war politician Yoshio Sakurauchi, and g…
Yukio Sakurauchi, Japanese businessman and politician, 27th Japanese Minister of Finance (died 1947)
S. S. Van Dine is the pen name used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright when he wrote detective novels. Wright was active in avant-garde cultural circles in pre–World …
S. S. Van Dine, American author and critic (died 1939)
Paul Bowman Popenoe was an American marriage counselor, eugenicist and agricultural explorer. He was an influential advocate of the compulsory sterilization of mentally ill people …
Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling (died 1979)
Pierre Paul Vermoyal was a French stage and film actor.
Paul Vermoyal, French actor (died 1925)
Onésime Gagnon was a Canadian politician who served as the 20th Lieutenant Governor of Québec.
Onésime Gagnon, Canadian scholar and politician, 20th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died 1961)
Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator …
Richard E. Byrd, American admiral and pilot (died 1957)